Monthly Archives: May 2011

I Madonnari at the Old Mission

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Jack Elliott

Some views of the Italian street painting festival on Sunday and the chalk art murals in progress. Something else caught my eye lying on some chalk boxes beside a mural, an all original Powell Peralta Steve Steadham from 1985 hardly … Continue reading →

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Elkhorn Plain, San Luis Obispo County

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jack Elliott

“Why think about that when all the golden land’s ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you’re alive to see?” – Jack Kerouac, On the Road Elkhorn Plain spans … Continue reading →

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Campfire Nights Under the Stars

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jack Elliott

A hot cup of coffee, a cool mountain night and a blazing campfire under the stars.

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Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter Tomato

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Jack Elliott

The name he went by was Charlie or just plain MC and “he’d get mad if anybody said it is Marshall Cletis Byles,” his grandson said. Charlie was a hardworking man with no formal education. “Well, I’ve always had a … Continue reading →

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Sierra Snow Melt Well Above Normal

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Jack Elliott

“Good luck and good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder … Continue reading →